Just as we're deep in thought pondering the true character of the Xe3 iGPU in Intel's new Panther Lake laptop chip and what the heck the "Xe3P" thing is that popped up in the marketing slides, here comes a left-field announcement. Intel will launch a new GPU later next year that's purpose built for AI inferencing. And guess what? It's using that Xe3P graphics architecture.
Specs-wise, other than the simple fact that the new GPU, codenamed Crescent Island, is using that next-gen Xe3P technology, there's little to go on. The only other detail is 160 GB of LPDDR5X memory.
